(CelebNMusic247-News) Meet Reelz New Reality Family Hollywood Hillbillies
There is another new redneck reality series called Hollywood Hillbillies that kicked off on Tuesday night on the Reelz channel.
Move over Honey Boo Boo, watch out Duck Dynasty there some new hicks on the block ready to be exploited for everyone’s enjoyment called Hollywood Hillbillies!
Stan E. Hubbard, chief executive of cable TV’s Reelz channel, sat quietly on stage in a Beverly Hills ballroom, his eyes fixed on the future of his network: a straight-shooting Georgia grandmother asking bemused reporters to fetch her a ham sandwich.
“Hollywood Hillbillies,” a reality sitcom in which a Southern-fried family takes on Tinseltown, may not be an early Emmy contender, but when it debuts Tuesday, it has the potential of doing for Reelz what Honey Boo Boo did for TLC and finally make the Minnesota-based Hubbard family a major player in the world of cable.
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Hollywood Hillbillies | Movie Trailer | Review
Popdust sat down with show creator David Weintraub and Hollywood Hillbillies matriarch, Mema to get a sneak peek into the lives behind the show.
On Movie to California:
Mema:
“Food! I’m a southern cook and I like southern cooking… every damn thing out there is diet! I’m not trying to lose weight! I want to eat! You know what my doctor said? You know, I’m a diabetic and he said, ‘you know Delores we need you to lose weight,’ and I said, ‘you know.. I need to change doctors!’ I don’t want to go on a diet.. I’m trying to gain weight! You have to really work at it, from daylight to dark! Eat, eat, eat!”
David Weintraub:
“We have some pretty crazy food on the show… We have some amazing meals.. We took them to the best of the best restaurants in LA—we went to all the great steakhouses, all the best sushi bars, but, remember that place you took me to down town Mema?”
On her favorite Hollywood stars:
Mema:
“Jack Nicholson! I love Jack Nicholson! And, I don’t know where Barbara Streisand lives, or Cher…I like them too.. but, I’m crazy about Jack Nicholson! I think he can do anything…and, you know Barbara Streisand and Cher, they’ve been round for many, many years and they’ve had hits all that time.. for years they’ve been having hits.”
Do you that fame and fortune will change you?
Mema:
“Oh no hon, nothing will change me! That’s why I haven’t hired a manager yet…nothing can change me.. and I’m just, I want to see if we get a second season, and before I even look at that… and, we love David, he’s really helped my grandson Michael, and Michael’s really crazy about him and we really enjoyed working with him, he’s a nice guy and I love his mom!”
David Weintraub:
“They’re definitely like family to me. Through this journey .. because Michael was my first experiment into the viral world, you know, Michael had hundreds of millions of hits on the internet—we wanted to go down that road and we really succeeded with him in the show. I mean, you’re going to see some stuff that’s going to shock you. I mean, we really tested out to see what Michael’s skills were going to be and once we figured out what he was good at, he immediately got a crazy deal to work in that field. We don’t want to give away too many details of what happens later in the show, but he really came through. I mean, he really performed, really well… it was kind of a crazy journey to get there, but once we got there, it was the real deal.”
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